Resources: Learn more about Dr. Seuss and these cartoons

Seuss's World War II Cartoons

Dr. Seuss Went to War. The Dr. Seuss Collection. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UC San Diego at La Jolla. <http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/index.htm>. A complete catalog of Seuss's World War II cartoons.

Jenkins, Henry. "'No Matter How Small': The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss." Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Ed. Jenkins, Tara McPherson, Jane Shattuc. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2002. 187-208.

Minear, Richard H. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Introduction by Art. Speigelman. New York: New Press, 1999. Offers a generous selection of Seuss's cartoons and situates them historically: highly recommended.

Nel, Philip. "'Said a Bird in the Midst of a Blitz...': How World War II Created Dr. Seuss." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 34.2 (June 2001): 65-85. <http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/mosaic/backlist/2001/June/nelessay34-2.html>. See also the revised version of this essay, which appears as "Dr. Seuss vs. Adolf Hitler: A Political Education" in Nel's Dr. Seuss: American Icon (Continuum, 2004), pp. 39-62.

PBS' Independent Lens: "The Political Dr. Seuss" (premieres 26 Oct. 2004). Also includes a "Learn More" page, listing further resources.

The Newspaper PM (in which the above cartoons appeared)

Margolick, David. "PM's Impossible Dream." Vanity Fair January 1999: 116-132. A concise, well-written history of PM, including a number of great photographs. Recommended.

Milkman, Paul. PM: A New Deal in Journalism, 1940-1948. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. The definitive history of the newspaper: highly recommended.

Nel, Philip. About the Newspaper PM. <http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/purple/miscellaneous/pm.html>. Draws heavily on the above two sources.

Biographies of Seuss

Cohen, Charles. The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss. New York: Random House, 2004.

Morgan, Judith, and Neil Morgan. Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel. New York: Random House, 1995. The definitive biography: highly recommended.

Seuss on the Web

Nel, Philip. Dr. Seuss on the Web. <http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/seuss/>. A collection of links to Seuss resources.

Dr. Seuss's Overtly Political Children's Books

Seuss, Dr. Bartholomew and the Oobleck. 1949. New York: Random House, 1977.

---. Horton Hears a Who! New York: Random House, 1954.

---. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! New York: Random House, 1957.

---. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1958.

---. The Sneetches and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1961.

---. The Lorax. New York: Random House, 1971.

---. The Butter Battle Book. New York: Random House, 1984.

Children's Books about Japanese-Americans and World War II^*

Hamanaka, Sheila. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism, and Renewal. 1990. Orchard Books, 1995.

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Illus. Dom Lee. New York: Lee & Low Books, 1993.

---. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story. Illus. Dom Lee. New York: Lee & Low Books, 1997.

Say, Allen. Home of the Brave. Walter Lorraine, 2002.

---. The Bicycle Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1982.

Shigekawa, Marlene. Blue Jay in the Desert. Illus. Isao Kikuchi. Polychrome, 1993.

Takashima, Shizuye. Child in Prison Camp. 1971. Tundra Books, 1991. About Japanese-Canadians.

Yoshiko, Uchida. Journey to Topaz. Illus. Donald Carrick. Scott Foresman, 1988.

---. Journey Home. Illus. by Charles Robinson. Scott Foresman, 1992.

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* For help in compiling this list, thanks to Terry Sherwin, Jeffrey Canton, Brian Witkowski, and Nick Glass.

World War II

BBC -- History -- World War II. Includes an array of valuable resources. Highly recommended.

Steven Schoenherr's World War II Timeline